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A very common question I get from corporate clients is whether they should use Developer's Certificates of Origin (DCOs) or contributor agreements for their open source projects. I'll refer to both contributor licensing agreements (like Apache's) and contributor copyright assignment agreements (like MongoDB's) as "CLAs" here. In short, the answer is that DCOs work...
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| | drewdevault.com

[AI summary] The author argues that the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) is a superior alternative to Contributor License Agreements (CLAs) for open-source projects, citing Amazon's fork of ElasticSearch as a positive example of protecting community rights.
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[AI summary] The author argues that Contributor Licensing Agreements (CLAs) are unnecessary bureaucracy for Free/Libre Open Source Software projects and advocates for mechanisms like the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) instead.
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Estimated Read Time: 5 mins - Understand the importance of a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and how it helps manage security, license, and operational risks in open source usage.
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